Synopsis: Sheela, newly-wed and newly-arrived to a big town, overcomes her alienation and loneliness by getting hooked onto the daily lessons of the TV TUTOR. Her husband, Govind, is an engineeer who is busy with work and busy with his pals.
The TV TUTOR is somewhat magical in its interactions with Sheela, and she gets herself [...]
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Synopsis: Spiders have often been a source of humansâ deepest nightmares. However, in Carrie’s Web they may actually save the day! A young South Asian woman struggles to untangle herself from cultural and familial webs. She looks for empowerment to stop cycle of violence only to find help from an extremely unlikely source. A [...] Synopsis: Sarah, a suburban housewife, befriends her gay neighbor Mike when he loses his longtime companion in a motorcycle accident. The two form a strange bond when Mike learns that Sarahâ s first husband was also killed in a car accident. They spend their nights mourning their lost loves in their own unique way until [...] Synopsis: Neighbors follows Carrie’s revelation that her husband is cheating on her with her next door neighbor’s wife. Synopsis: In the newly globalized India, the Gupta family of Marine Drive is on the edge of a nervous break down. Many of the battles between East and West are taking place under their own roof: a business thatā s been in the family for generations was ruined by a powerful American company, a highly [...] Synopsis: The play is about the continuous fight that each one of us has to go through for our physical and emotional survival, especially for those of us who are the first generation immigrants to USA. The wars we fight are not always just and fair but we still need to fight them anyway. Synopsis: Oblivious to theory, two otherwise unoccupied men construct and deconstruct the Apocalypse inside their apartment. Synopsis: This collection of one acts are generally comedic and philosophical in their nature. A few are short and lighthearted such as A Play for my Dentist, a ten-minute which traces the (sweet but not saccharine) emotional relationship between two dentists of different ethnicities through their research and collaboration in dentistry. Others are bit more [...] Synopsis: The story of Hamlet set in a curry house. A verse play that re-imagines the Shakespearian play within the confines of an Indian restaurant in modern times. Synopsis: A re-telling of the Ramayana set in modern day England. Written in a modern, colloquial freewheeling verse and inspired by the theater of Steven Berkoff. This is a vocal text that needs to be married to a physical one. Synopsis: Synopsis: CHUP is the story of two estranged sisters who come to terms with their relationship after the death of their mother. Having grown up straddling two communities and cultures amidst secrets and taboos, one sister, Saima has chosen to stay close to home and to her traditional Indian-Muslim values while the other has chosen [...] Synopsis: This modern-day retelling of Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” finds out heroine Kavita faced with the choice between living in a “Pride & Prejudice” fantasy world of her own making or the not-so-tidy world of reality where Mr. Darcy may not exist. Synopsis: In a newly formed boutique water company, an odd assortment of individuals come together. As the global economy becomes increasingly smaller, each individual comes to face what they are willing to give up in the pursuit for happiness. 1 hr, 40 min Synopsis: Steven and Rahul, 18-year-old best friends in life, meet in the afterlife, where one has a lot of explaining to do. |
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